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The Pit-Prop Syndicate

by Freeman Wills Crofts

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First published
1922
Pages
239
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  1. The Sawmill on the Lesque

    22:58

  2. An Interesting Suggestion

    21:47

  3. The Start of the Cruise

    25:22

  4. A Commercial Proposition

    26:31

  5. The Visit of the "Girondin"

    29:51

  6. A Change of Venue

    22:28

  7. The Ferriby Depot

    20:11

  8. The Unloading of the "Girondin"

    22:32

  9. The Second Cargo

    38:12

  10. Merriman Becomes Desperate

    26:06

  11. An Unexpected Ally

    37:39

  12. Murder!

    20:26

  13. A Promising Clue

    19:17

  14. A Mystifying Discovery

    28:42

  15. Inspector Willis Listens In

    22:24

  16. The Secret of the Syndicate

    24:13

  17. "Archer Plants Stuff"

    32:19

  18. The Bordeaux Lorries

    24:34

  19. Willis Spreads His Net

    34:23

  20. The Double Cross

    27:17

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Freeman Wills Crofts blends mystery with adventure in this 1922 novel, which begins with a small oddity that refuses to sit still in the mind. On a business trip near Bordeaux, wine merchant Seymour Merriman watches a lorry belonging to a pit-prop firm quietly swap its number plates, and the more he and his friend Hilliard poke at the company that ships mining timber from France to England, the less innocent it looks. What starts as amateur snooping grows into a full criminal investigation, and Scotland Yard is eventually drawn in to expose what the syndicate is really moving.

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Freeman Wills Crofts

Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957) was an Irish-born railway engineer who began writing detective fiction while recovering from a long illness. A founding member of the Detection Club, he became a mainstay of the Golden Age and is best remembered for the methodical Inspector French.

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Book facts

First published
1922
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
239
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
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